Andrea Nesti

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ANDREA NESTI

Pianist and composer, he also studies choral music and choir direction at Luigi Cherubini conservatorie in Florence. At Fiesole Music school he followed the perfecting course held by Giacomo Manzoni. He also attend the annual course of musical aesthetic and analysis held by Renzo Cresti and organized by G.A.M.O. of Florence.

Todays Music adviser, he designed and took care of ContemporaneoPiano review in collaboration with Luigi Pecci Museum of Prato from 1990 until 1994 and Manifesta Musica in Quarrata (Pistoia) National Theater from 1999 until 2002.

As artistic director, he took care of the following recordings:

  • ContemporaneoPiano, double CD (1991);
  • John Cage a Firenze (1992), a CD and a book dedicated to the Florence event;
  • An ensemble CD with L.Berio, S.Sciarrino, S.Bussotti and I.Xenakis. music executions. The cover (COLOPHON) was specifically created by the artist Sol Lewitt and some copies are exposed at New York MOMA.

Improvvisoincanto (2003) for piano, voice, percussions, is another project that had his " first " in Florence Teatro Puccini and from whom another interesting CD was produced.

In 2018 another recording: ATTO D'ABIURA di Galileo Galilei for piano and acting voice. In an exclusive and original box projected by the graphic designer Maurizio Della Nave, the CD was selected at the Fedrigoni Top Award competition and exposed at Berlin Radialsistem on May 9 and 10, 2019.

Apart from music, his interest space from art to science, from poetry to philosophy, and in 1998 in his continuos and constant search of new motivations, or better, inspirations thanks to a particularly curious temper, participated to a four days course held by Anthony Robbins in Milan centered on rational (reasons) and emotive (feelings) possibilities development and empowering.

From this etherogeneous interests, curiosities, cultural collisions, thinking, internal tensions and external contaminations, the following works will see the light in years:

  • DODICI COMPOSIZIONI (2019) over the poet and philosopher Alberto Peruzzis poetries, for piano and acting voice.
  • SENZA TITOLO (2014) Musica on 27 drawings made by the painter Gianfranco Chiavacci;
  • ATTO D'ABIURA (2007) di Galileo Galilei, for piano and acting voice - produced in CD-;
  • DANTEUM (2005) the islamic origin of the Divine Comedy? for piano and acting voice;
  • CRETTO (2005) piano;
  • PIANO CHET (2004) for piano and acting voice, script made by Claudia Cappellini, in narrates the life of the great trumpeteer Chet Baker;
  • IMPROVVISO ALFA, OMEGA, P GRECO, LAMBDA, DELTA (2003) recorder in improvvisoincanto CD;
  • COMBUSTIONE (1997) cemb, fg;
  • LACRYMOSA (1996) chorus only;
  • S'AVVIA TRA I MURI È PREDA DELLA LUCE (1994) for piano and soprano, Music based on a poetry from Mario Luzi;
  • POST CARD FOR THE BEATLES (1991) piano;
  • CANTA L'ARIA (1990) for room orchestra;
  • MODO (1990) for 10 instruments;
  • FRAMMENTO (1989) voice, accordion, piano;
  • INVENZIONE (1989) fl,cor.ing,cl,cr,fg;
  • CONTRASTO (1989) piano, recorded only in the double ContemporaneoPiano CD;
  • CHORUS (1987) flute, violin, viola,p iano;

The musichologist Renzo Cresti wrote about his way of composing and about some of his works in his monumental book Musica Presente ( ed. LIM 2019 ) with a detailed review.

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